Hospital volume and patient outcomes after cholecystectomy in Scotland: Retrospective, national population based study

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 344, Issue 7861, 2012, Pages

  Harrison, Ewen M ^a   O'Neill, Stephen ^a   Meurs, Thomas S ^b   Wong, Pang L ^a   Duxbury, Mark ^a   Paterson Brown, Simon ^a   Wigmore, Stephen J ^a   Garden, O James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE CONCEPTS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITAL VOLUME; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEROPERATIVE CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIMULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED KINGDOM; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; HOSPITALIZATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER DISEASES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCOTLAND; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84862506759     PISSN: 17561833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.e3330     Document Type: Article

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